Wonderful stuff, the only problem with your videos is it makes me wish even more that I'd made the 2024 Minors on Tour. However, your videos make me feel I'm almost there 😅... Looking forward to tge next one. Have a wonderful Christmas guys Kind Regards Johnny 👍
@RustyZipper2 күн бұрын
I’m glad that you got your rear end sorted out!
@TemptingFateTours2 күн бұрын
😆
@FMFGUF2 күн бұрын
Pretty remarkable that a 30bhp engine would be able to grenade a diff! I've broken three half shafts, but that's with a 1275cc MG Midget engine in a 1970 Traveller.
@TemptingFateTours2 күн бұрын
We suspect that pre-existing diff noise may have been the problem, or ONE of the problems, that led to the Traveller being parked in ... 1968. We just don't know.
@delukxy3 күн бұрын
The new diff will mean it will cruise much nicer at the expense of not being able to burn rubber so readily off the line.
@TemptingFateTours3 күн бұрын
"burn rubber" ... SNORT!
@ryderc893 күн бұрын
Always happy to help a fellow Minor owner! 😇
@FMFGUF9 күн бұрын
Troubleshooting step part 1: 6:04 Interior light has been left on, probably causing a flat battery.
@TemptingFateTours9 күн бұрын
Gonna let @tomrymes respond to that one. He + John discussed it (known weirdness) but he should answer.
@TomRymes9 күн бұрын
@@TemptingFateTours@FMFGUF - Well, I’ll be, it does work! I hadn’t noticed the dome light on when it came in, and it must have gone back out by the time it had its tires on the ground again? All I can say is that I haven’t the slightest idea how it works, as it does not have a dedicated ground wire and it’s mounted in wood. Definitely a project for a future date.
@allanegleston493110 күн бұрын
just one of those days:(
@johnnywarnerperfectroad6610 күн бұрын
Great video, certainly you've the Spirit of Minors on Tour, I'm sure you must have been awarded one of the esteemed MOT2024 number plates. I wish my Traveller had been ready and I'd likely have met you. Reckon be 2026 before Boris the Morris makes it to his next one. Only been twice but lovely folk garanteed.
@davidallum272810 күн бұрын
I love the 'Fulton' on the lowlight I didn't know they were available for MMs I'd like one on my 67 Traveller. I'm in UK.
@TemptingFateTours9 күн бұрын
It came with John's lowlight, but note it's shaped + trimmed for a splitscreen. No idea if they altered the design for a Minor 1000. Clearly you need to find the Fulton Sun Shield Collectors' Club !! 😆
@davidallum27289 күн бұрын
Yes, I'll check them out thanks. @TemptingFateTours
@TemptingFateTours9 күн бұрын
@@davidallum2728 Oh, sorry, that was at least half a joke! We have no earthly idea if such a club exists. Though knowing the old-car world ... it may ....
@davidallum27289 күн бұрын
I did make my own take on a Fulton for my Morris Minor pickup a couple of years ago out of a bonnet ( hood ) from a mm van.@TemptingFateTours
@delukxy11 күн бұрын
Steph of Idriveaclassic spotted there. Subscribed.
@taks843912 күн бұрын
What a great video 😊
@desertlifestylegroup13 күн бұрын
I love everyting about this except that you had mechanical trouble. It makes for a cliffhanger, tho. lol Oh, and the woman wearing the disposable plastic rain bonnet is my idol. She did her hair for a classic car road trip. THAT's class. ❤
@TemptingFateTours13 күн бұрын
Oh, that's our friend Steph from I Drive A Classic. She dresses that way ALL the time! And you should absolutely follow her videos here too.
@cudak88813 күн бұрын
Those speedbumps are raised intersections, FYI! They do wonders for keeping traffic from speeding through neighborhoods. Just what low-speed Morris Minor experiences benefit from :)
@TemptingFateTours13 күн бұрын
Oh, I know [SQUEAK] wwwwwwwwwwwwhat they're for, and they work well [THUD] but in a 75-year-old car with [uhnnnnnk] old bushings they can be [THUNK] a bit much.
@cudak88813 күн бұрын
@TemptingFateTours Ah, but you don't have modern crash-o-matic suspension with negative inches of sidewalls. The modern stuff has it worse, it's just more isolated with less of the creaky-creaky. I'm all for anything that keeps the present lot of overpowered machines from running classic cars off the road. I can barely pull out of my driveway in peace without getting honked at (worse trying to pull in), and I live on a road that should be as calm as any Dutch village but has been blessed (hah) by US traffic engineers who've ensured it's used as a cut-through arterial. Even if it means a few hundy thrown at KYBs or Bilsteins to ease the pain that $5 Monroes can't even comprehend, I'll take all the traffic calming one can throw at it.
@tartanredmgb13 күн бұрын
Fantastic video, John! I've owned a few Morris Minors over the years, now have MGs only for Britcars.
@DYT-jx4jp13 күн бұрын
Enjoy the videos! 👍👍
@InternetDude13 күн бұрын
The background music is too loud compared to your voice volume.
@cudak88813 күн бұрын
Really? Thought this was one of their better mixes. Wouldn't have wanted it to the point where it didn't have any "bounce" to it.
@jeremywentworth1833Ай бұрын
As the video started clearly someone owns a Metro in the states my God a mini metro in America. In the early 90s an ex girlfriend had a metro & wrote it off on around about in Leeds West Yorkshire. It was similar to the car in the video which looks like a City which I think was a 1.0L. As they were so crap & I worked for Rover lol until 05. Over 2 million made with nearly 1,5 million sold here theirs just under 600 left on UK roads.
@jeremywentworth1833Ай бұрын
I'm English & you can have a car on foreign plates in the UK for upto 6 months, presumably meeting up with moggy minor owners your not going to be here, why anyone not from England Scotland Ireland or Wales would want to come here must be mad. But owning a Morris Minor you must a little weird lol & like the rain. In the UK once a car from out of the country is here more than 6 months it has to be registered for British plates & for Road fund license & yearly MOT. But as both cars are over 40 years old they would be exempt for both anyway. Think it was brought in when foreigners particularly eastern Europeans came in there clapped out cars & were getting out of paying Road fund & would no way pass an MOT also the police couldn't prove if they had insurance or not due to been foreign.
@TemptingFateToursАй бұрын
Indeed, for the U.K. portion of this adventure (which you've not yet seen), the cars will spend slightly less than 6 months in the U.K. and then be shipped back out again.
@morini500daveАй бұрын
In certain circumstances UK plates can be transfered to another vehicle or even what's called on retention where the registration number is kept for use at a later date or put on a different vehicle,very distinctive plates are traded and each time a transfer is made the DVLA(DMV) gets a £80 fee.
@etmccausАй бұрын
Finally!
@RustyZipperАй бұрын
No Lemon’s Rally 🍋 Fall Failiage 💔
@TemptingFateToursАй бұрын
Yeah, we didn't do Fall Failiage this year. Just couldn't make all the pieces come together. We do, however, seem to have plans already brewing for Fall Fail-iage 2025 ... stay tuned!
@DYT-jx4jpАй бұрын
Nice way to start the day with this video update. Thanks for the efforts!!
@GEOFF09064 ай бұрын
On one of the online Morris forums, someone has made a pair of wedges which when hammered into place above the centre of the length of the torsion bar, will ease the bar down enough to remove and then replace the bolts the correct way. The other problem which will happen if the bolt is fed in backwards, is that the nut and the end of the bolt emerges too far out of the crossmember, and will foul the torsion bar and if you're unlucky will cause an annoying rattle.
@brettoneil76894 ай бұрын
The music and talking at same time is so annoying. Im out
@jeffnisewanger82604 ай бұрын
I finally got around to watching one of these videos and ended up binge-watching the entire set. Fun!
@TemptingFateTours4 ай бұрын
Hah! Thanks, Jeff. Do subscribe if you haven't already, we have more coming ...
@rupe534 ай бұрын
Sounds unusual that an engine would have lost most of its compression overnight unless some carbon broke fee and hung up the valves. Some compressed air and a valve adjustment might solve that issue without removing the head.
@SalAvenue4 ай бұрын
Great back story in the history of CA plates. Were you able to keep the black/yellow plates? Hopefully you were and can put them back on through the DMV’s YOM program. They’d look so much better on your car than those new ubiquitous 9 series plates they assigned you.
@TemptingFateTours4 ай бұрын
Yes, it took Sacramento a while to think about it, but eventually they issued new paperwork for the car under its old plates. However, note this was NOT the Year of Manufacture program, which applies only to pre-1963 plates. It's not for plates whose series is still active (the original black-and-gold AAA 000 to ZZZ 999 series).
@markchapmon86704 ай бұрын
Wow! Just raising and lowering the top on an MGB would have me buying another Miata.
@chuckmaddison29244 ай бұрын
Here in Australia, we can change the plates every day . Used car yards do it all the time. They can tart the car up to look like it was cared for, then put new local plates on it. Plates can give an indication of place of origin within the state.
@LAmonk764 ай бұрын
Wonder why you could not keep the 60's plates when it was registered?
@TemptingFateTours4 ай бұрын
We hung onto them, but CA's process and the decades between the car's last registration (1968) + when we asked to reactivate the number (2023) meant a special department in Sacramento had to weigh in. So they issued us temporary new plates to make the car legal until they could reactivate the old ones. That make sense?
@MatthewBerginGarage4 ай бұрын
I bought a 1958 Morris Minor woodie as my first car in 1973. I paid $10 for it and an additional $5 for the safety. The person who gave me the safety as far as I know never ever looked at it once. I loved that car. Being a Canadian car it had the funny round heater/defrost unit just above the speedo. I finally had to retire it for rust and rot but it was a great car.
@NYCS193394 ай бұрын
Swapping bullet connectors is something everyone should do
@lilorbielilorbie24964 ай бұрын
Now it's been a few years since I lived in California. But when I did cars plates where totally different from truck plates. And I don't mean 18 wheeler's just regular trucks. In 1967 when my Late Dad bought a brand new 1967 Ford F-100 Camper Special. It got a black and yellow plate. Back then the truck plates started with a letter followed by 6 numbers. And if my memory serves me right. The price for the sticker on the plate was that a truck was half of what a car sticker was. And the lowest it could go was .$ 12.00 for a truck and $24.00 for a car.
4 ай бұрын
Looks pretty much like the 1960 Sprite I owned in 1962. Cheap crappy design enhanced with shoddy materials. England was the cradle of the Industrial Revolution and then it devolved into this mess.
@FMFGUFКүн бұрын
Probably no worse than the car design/build of today; my 1970 Morris Minor Traveller is still running well with 166,000+ miles. Most jobs on them are simple, aside from the brake master cylinder!
@arcturius4 ай бұрын
FYI: When your Morris Minor received its black plate, it was issued from the Hollywood DMV office (edit: not Pasadena ). They issued plates with starting with the letters JLA-xxx to JTF -xxx. State-wide beginning in 1963, Northern California DMV offices issued letter plates starting with "AAA" to "EMG". Southern California offices issued "EMH" to "KVZ" and "NTA to "RDA". The range of "KWA" to "NSZ" were originated the two Sacramento offices, one of these being the main DMV HQ.
@TemptingFateTours4 ай бұрын
Whoa, great info, and thank you!
@TomRymes4 ай бұрын
@arcturius: correct me if I am wrong, but JQK-281 isn’t in the range JTG-xxx to KAN-xxx.
@arcturius4 ай бұрын
@@TomRymes You are correct, mistake on my part. It was the Hollywood DMV office which issued plates JLA-xxx to JTF-xxx
@DYT-jx4jp4 ай бұрын
Thks for video update! Bummer on the new problem 😢
@johnquilter76204 ай бұрын
I have heard that the though bolts for the brake master can be removed if the torsion bar is carefully levered down to allow for clearance leaving the bar in situ. Of course, when refitting, fit the bolts the other way round, nuts on the torsion bar side. Many Minors have already been so modified.
@TemptingFateTours4 ай бұрын
Indeed, and levering the torsion bar down is exactly what Tom did (we didn't have video). But they were fitted that way for a reason, it turns out: So if the nut worked its way off, the bolt would be trapped in place so the master cylinder couldn't come loose.
@DYT-jx4jp4 ай бұрын
Enjoying you sharing your efforts on this! Thks for making the videos!
@TemptingFateTours4 ай бұрын
Thanks for the good words!
@capturingthemachine5 ай бұрын
Good update!
@TemptingFateTours5 ай бұрын
Thank you kindly!
@johnnywarnerperfectroad665 ай бұрын
Good to see some classics driving that area as someone who did RT66 both ways in a 1973 standard MG Midget hood down of course in October 2020, my one disappointment was seeing no classics driving aside from a few folk we arranged to meet and do a few miles with. Found you as you have your 49 Moggy Minor in the UK just now... If you are anywhere near Norfolk or East Anglia would love to meet up for a drive. Sadly Missed Minors on tour this year as I understand you were there... Enjoy your travels and keep flying the flag for driving classics 👍
@TemptingFateTours5 ай бұрын
Thanks for the kind words. Tom couldn't make the National Rally, where the lowlight was exhibited, and it's now stored near Coventry awaiting its appearance at November's NEC Classic Motor Show. Might we see you there? Meanwhile, both Tom + John did MoT (including a diff replacement on Tom's '55 Traveller barn find). More videos coming, slowly!
@WitchyWhale5 ай бұрын
This would be a perfect beach cruiser with a surfboard on the roof.
@TemptingFateTours5 ай бұрын
You will forgive us for gently pointing out that no self-respected surfer of the '60s or '70s would ever have used a Minor Traveller. Too small, and church doors rather than tailgate. The ones that show up at auctions all Hawaiied out are, to our eyes ... well, let's say, suboptimal? To each his own, but this one will not be that. And thank you for watching!
@eggybreadplease5 ай бұрын
Crikey that an old traveller 😳 very much looking forward to seeing more videos 👍
@DYT-jx4jp5 ай бұрын
Enjoy the videos/sharing your project journey here (and the past ones too). Thanks for the efforts involved!
@JohnCBriggs5 ай бұрын
great update.
@etmccaus5 ай бұрын
Enjoyed it, as always, but wish these chapters were a little longer than five minutes at a time...
@nedludd76225 ай бұрын
I had a secondhand Woody from the 60's to the 80's. It was in running condition when I got it so not many problems. I once had to have the valves done and once decided to have the engine rebuilt, that's about it. I drove it all over on camping trips, from San Diego to the Sierras to Oregon, also from SD to the Colorado Rockies even in winter.
@TemptingFateTours5 ай бұрын
They're remarkably tough little cars if you keep up with maintenance, and easy to repair. We couldn't figure out why this one was parked in 1968 ... but we found out over the course of the trip. See future episodes!
@ClassicMGB5 ай бұрын
Great video - looked like a lot of fun!
@crashbox71305 ай бұрын
I owned a 1961 Minor 1000 Convertible back in the 1990s. I now own a 1932 Morris Minor Two-Seater which rolled off the production line at Cowley on the 11th April '32. In June last year I took it on a 1,200 mile tour from my home in Worcestershire to the Scottish Highlands, in 28 degree heat (82f). Given the 3-speed 'crash' gearbox sits inside the cabin and heat from the engine finds its way through the wooden flooring, I had to do the entire 8 day trip with the hood down to save me from frying. The little car happily sat at 40mph (no motorways/freeways/highways), and never let me down. Morris Motors built solid, reliable cars in the 1920s and 30s.
@johnrockley94725 ай бұрын
Great video. In UK, my father bought a 1949 minor, I think in 1960. I learnt to drive in it in 1963 when I was 17. It was 1950 all but 10 days, first owner was a clergyman in London, the registration number was KYN72, it was 2 door, colour was black. It was later sold and replaced by a used Mini. Oh, the memories!
@TemptingFateTours5 ай бұрын
Sadly, that registration number is no longer active on the DVLA, so I fear the car may have been scrapped. Thanks for the nice words!
@jeffking41765 ай бұрын
Just subscribed. As someone from the U.S., who grew up in the 1960’s, I do remember seeing a few of these. Mom had a Coworker who had a 4 door. I will be following your “adventures”. 🚗🙂